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Billie Holiday's 'God Bless the Child' Gave Blacks Their Own Mournful But Hopeful 'Over the Rainbow'
Billie Holiday's 'God Bless the Child' Gave Blacks Their Own Mournful But Hopeful 'Over the Rainbow'
A columnist writes that "God Bless the Child" is at least as historically important as "Strange Fruit" to the Black community, with its bracing mixture of hard-scrabble practicality and hope.
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